[150] See pp. [xxxix]-[xlv].

[151] A thermometer which registered -77° at the Winter Quarters of H.M.S. Alert on March 4, 1876, is preserved by the Royal Geographical Society. I do not know whether it was screened.

[152] My own diary.

[153] My own diary.

[154] My own diary.

[155] Ibid.

[156] See Introduction, pp. [xxxix]-[xlv].

[157] See p. [82].

[158] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 42.

[159] Keats.